Hi everyone, PlayStation 3 (PS3) firmware update (v3.00) adds a number of great new features that we’re excited to share with you. The latest update incorporates changes that improve navigation on your PS3. First, you’ll notice some cosmetic changes to the design of the XMB (Xross Media Bar). We’ve enhanced the look and feel of the XMB so that it’s easier and even more intuitive to use. We’ve also added network improvements and personalization options to help enhance your PS3 experience.
Additional highlights from update 3.00 include:
- “What’s New” – The “Information Board” will be replaced with a “What’s New” section, which allows you to enjoy interactive PlayStation news every time you start the PS3 system. Located under the PlayStation Network icon, “What’s New” displays the latest and greatest game, video, PlayStation Network and PlayStation news and releases, as well as your recently played games, in a sleek, new animated format.
- Status Indicator – In the top right corner we’ve added an indicator bar, which displays your user icon, friend icon, the number of friends you have online and a small message icon to let you know if you have any new messages. The indicator also includes a scrolling ticker that features the latest news from PlayStation Network. In addition, when you press the PS button, the battery life indicator will no longer cover up the clock.
- Friends List – Now your PlayStation Network friends will appear in a slightly redesigned format on your Friends List. Also, messages will now be viewable from each of your friends’ respective profiles.
- PlayStation Store Shortcuts – We’ve added a handy shortcut icon to the PlayStation Store under both the Game and Video categories so you can access the latest content quickly and easily.
- Personalization – Personalize your PS3 with new dynamic custom themes and avatars. Dynamic themes as well as free and premium avatars will be available through PlayStation Store. A dynamic theme takes your screen to a whole new level as it incorporates animated objects into the background.
- Trophies – Showcasing your hard earned trophies just got better. Update 3.00 gives game developers the ability to modify how they display trophies for add-on content. Base and add-on game trophies will continue to be combined into a single list so you can see where you stand in a game as a whole. Within that list, trophies will be broken out into subcategories—base trophies and add-on trophies—that way, you can easily view the percentage of your base game trophy collection, and separately track your trophy progress in add-on packs. Look for this enhancement to be included in upcoming games.
To get a preview of what’s coming in update 3.00, check out the video below:
We’re looking forward to releasing firmware update 3.00 soon. As always, we appreciate your feedback.
No cross game invite nor Parties a-la XBox Live? Comon SONY! When you gonna learn???
In-Game Chat?
Great looking foward
This is a step in the right direction. Doing updates to better interactions with online. Now lets see cross game chat and party chat and join friends games:)
WHERES THE VOICE CHAT!!!!!!!! INGAME MUSIC SUPPORT !!! GOD!! SONY NEVER LISTENS TO THEIR CUSTOMERS THATS WHY THERE IN THE POSITION THEY ARE RIGHT NOW
SCREW U SONY
AND THE UI IS STILL BORING COMPARED TO THE XBOX
people [DELETED] and moan so much in this world…so sick of it….was that me [DELETED] about people [DELETED]? whoops
Yea !!! Great Work Sony Keep it up.
This is your YEAR to show everyone what your made of. =]
If Sony listened to their customers, they’d already have software BC up and running in a FREE update. But they’re saving that for when they add in PS2 games for download from the PSN store.
Right money grubbing profiteers?
If Sony keeps on track like they’re going, I predict they’ll make the PS4 within 2 years, abandon the PS3 and end up pulling a Sega.
If for nothing, they make decent games, but this hardware(especially the overpricing at the beginning of this gen) sucks.
Millions of DRE PS2’s say it’s so.
I’ll pass, yet again. In a 3.0 rev I was hoping for something like Netflix support. Xbox is leaving PS3 in the dust w.r.t. creating a compelling media center.
Please add backwards compatibility for PS2 games and hopefully Netflix.
My only gripe with the current XMB is pressing the PS Button and waiting for the XMB to refresh just to access “Quit Game”.
As many people have expressed, why doesnt the new update offer In-Game Chat or Party Chat. Any real new robust communication features? Hopefully theres more substance to 3.1 and above than this september 1st update.
So we’re 3 months away from the PS3’s 3rd birthday and we still don’t have cross-game chat. All of this is nothing but filler content, which is just stalling and not addressing what the customers want.
Some shiny sparkles and ads for the store just don’t cut it. The only useful part of this update is the fix for the battery/time issue and the message notifications on the top of the screen.
Iam dissapointed with the FW 3.00, it just adds advertisement and clutter (the PSN Store shorcuts). but the Themes and avatars sound interesting.
Nice going eric … but are we ever going to see a Better Profile & any Home interactivity with the XMB?
wow very looking ford to it all
ya ya thats all good and stuff but where is the bc update bro i wanna play my ps2 games on my ps3
will the new fw disable the “Install other OS” option?
I guess we’ll have to wait until 4.0 for in game chat
when come out
WHEN?!
WOW NOT LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS AT ALL.
nothing that good, i want more, you don´t listen to users, we want cross game voice chat, PS2 Backwards Compatibility or at least few PS2 titles on PS Store like GoW1/2, shadow of collosus… Only thing worth mentioning is the status bar, yes and i like the new active themes, but it doesn´t improve personalization, we just get moving themes… never mind give us more info on Agent :)
what a piece of crap, I don’t need the store to be everywhere and default and the store. I can believe I’m being force to update to a worst product. How about you work on feature like cross game chat instead of sparkles and upselling psn.
AWESOME UPDATE!!!! took a while, but seems like it was worth waiting for :)
@774
You like this update? Enjoy the garbage, lemming.
well do we at least know when faildate 3.0 will be out? or is the one article i read about it telling the truth and we’ll have to wait 2 weeks for it……hopefully it releases tonight so i don’t have to waste my time on September 1st
Holy [BLEEP] people. Really. Sony is trying their hardest to churn out these updates for us. We should at grateful that they even try. As for everyone who is griping for more features, seriously. Just take it slow. You can’t get everything great out of life just by crying for it. And as for those of you who are complaining about how these updates “Suck”, just get over it. I’m sick and tired of hearing everyone yell at Sony’s employees for not putting in something outrageously awesome or cool with every update. Just stop crying and screaming over it. For those of you who don’t know, even the smallest updates that just “Improve stability and compatibility” are just as important as any other update. Just because they don’t add any other kind of user interface improvement or anything doesn’t mean that there’s no point to them. They allow for game developers to create new and better things for the PS3, so seriously, just stop griping about it. Also, we should all know that in game music is patented and owned by another company, so that isn’t going to be happening any time soon.
The sooner you people open your eyes and understand, the better.
yeah…. this is what I was waiting for….
I really would like to know if Canada will get movies in the playstation store in that next update. cause as it is right now, I can only download free trailers…
YAY NOOOOOOOOO!!!! CROSS GAME CHAT. Good Job Sony. but this update is garbage wats the point of adding a shortcut to the PSN store.
AWESOME.
Can Wait For It.
And Thanks To Kept The Playstion 3 More Great Each Day.
Where’s the simultaneous audio output over optical and hdmi?
Oh WOW thanks A LOT.
Sony is SOO nice to give us Playstation fans(the people who bought the console at launch for $600) EXACTLY what we want.
They’re giving us a whats new tab, and making it easier to access the last games we played. and OOOOOHHHH look they’re making the XMB look all pretty JUST FOR US.
Who needs Cross game invite/chat when we got all these great features coming out on Firmware 3.0 that will enhance the gaming experience for us.
/sarcasm
um guys, he said EARLY LOOK maybye they are making it but cant show it off yet…Maybye its actually hard to make awesome stuff so just wait…I was told it was coming out on the 20th so its dissapointing to have to wait for the ps2 bc XGC and in game music. well we will hopefully at least get 2 of those
well…in your video one of your people said they would like to get “feedback”, to be honest i cant give feedback on smth i didnt use BUT, allthough i know none of you will read it and this comment will sink in to oblivion, still i wanner brag a little.
whats good, the new wave.
its just…i dont understand why you had to integrate the PSN shop into games and videos. The XMB had a very clear design and with most of the updates you somehow managed to fill the XMB with ugly icons. atleast let me decide if i want to see folders…..why cant you make them dynamic? i.e. BD live folder….if i dont have any _BD live data, than make that folder invisible. if i dont downloaded home to my system make that icon invisible…..i dont have the extra picture viewer (be cause i am just sooooo happy with the standard one) i dont want to have an VidZone icone…i dont use it. just put an extra field for design settings : invisible icons, and let me chose if i want to see sub icons or not. I just dont use the news ticker stuff and so…….why to i have to live with it? it just seems like an NXE…..whats your next step?
when is the update released????
part2:advertisement in the XMB for games and features i just dont want to have? i bought the system on day one, i am happy with the hardware…it works like it should, but the software GUI gets worse. i like add ons like wallpaper, the clock, background downloading, system updates without pluggin the USB cable. soo many good update working in the background. most of the users are just satisfied with the system and dont care about things like that but with those suggested options they dont lose, they just win the option to choose….and thats very important. guy like me who love(d) the minimalitic XMB design would be pleased. but there is noone reading this of some guys in charge and say “ohh….well we could” . i can understand your position sold 23mio consoles and there are like 1000 people commenting like me here, the othere millions just dont care and so you dont have to care too, am i right. its just so frustrating
3.0 seems awesome.
Does it come out on September 1st?
were the heck is cross game chat??!!! why do you add features that aren’t needed. -_- …
those are some nice additions, i am looking forward to this update.
Meh. Give us what we’ve been asking for: full PS2 emulation and cross game chat. Then I’ll be excited. What a disappointment.
This update is gonna be sweet, I can’t wait.
The price on the new PS3 will help beat the 360 in its sell’s.
That was cool and all but are they going to include tools so you can make your own custom avatars and themes? We are all already provided a theme program but it would awesome if with this new system we got a new tool kit so we could make are own themes and avatars with all the updates.
This is pretty cool and all, but this looks more like it should be v2.90. This is mainly just a change of aesthetics.
Obviously, the big question is WHEN WILL THERE BE CROSS-GAME CHAT??? Are you at least working on it? You’re ignoring the most requested feature! At least tell us what is going on!
And premium avatars? As in paying for them? Why?
We also need more ways to organize folders. I hate having to organize things by album, and having to type in the album name for every file. It would be nice if the SMX wasn’t so slow either.
I just hope there is more to come for this update.
It always floores me to see idiots in the comments complaining about massive free updates, but this comment just takes the cake-
758- “If Sony listened to their customers, they’d already have software BC up and running in a FREE update. But they’re saving that for when they add in PS2 games for download from the PSN store.
Right money grubbing profiteers?”
Why the hell would Sony want to develop a PS2 emulator for the PS3 and then give it away for free? WTF!?
Money grubbing profiteers? You get free online play, free store access, free themes, free constant firmware updates, etc etc – and yet you actually manage to COMPLAIN that sony isnt listening to you when you say “If Sony listened to their customers, they’d already have software BC up and running in a FREE update”.
Fvck you.
Correction: It would be nice if the XMB wasn’t so slow either.
awesome its looking better and better every time theres an updated.. now we wait for the good games to come out.. I <3 my 80gig Mgs4 edition Ps3 lol..
wow still no voice chat cross game. still no fix for some media file playback. etc. you are still a failure limpell. o but they let u buy more avatar garbage.. milky milky. how about an ackowledgement of the YLOD? no of course not. clown shoes.
this all just sounds so sweet, im pretty pumped
Super duper sweeet@
cant wait! super stoked !